Not until the "Party of Lincoln" apologizes to the American Public for the tens of thousands of former slaves who died as a result of their Lincoln-liberation with no resources provided for their welfare.
Tens of thousands? What lost cause propaganda sheet did you get that misinformation from?
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Not until the “Party of Lincoln” apologizes to the American Public for the tens of thousands of former slaves who died as a result of their Lincoln-liberation with no resources provided for their welfare.
Actually, HO is pretty close. The best information I’ve found on this is testimonies from Freedman slaves who were interviewed in 1937.
Here’s how one put it:
“”Of course I hear about Abraham Lincoln and he was a
great man, but I was told mostly by the children when dey come home from school about him. I always think of my Master as de one dat freed me, and anyways Abraham and none of his North people didn’t look after
me and buy my crop right after I was free like Master did. Dat was de time dat was the hardest and everything was dark and confusion.”
Thousands of ‘freed’ slaves were held at Ft. Gibson and many forts where they mostly starved and froze to death.
Testimonies of Cherokee Freedmen Slaves, A 1937 WPA project. Records prepared by the Federal Writers’ Project 1936-1938 assembled by the Library of Congress Work Projects, Administration for the Dist. Of Columbia http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/w#a3906